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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Horse Feathers. Those affiliated with the American
right generally do not espouse anti-capitalist/pro-communist rhetoric or believe
that our currency should be backed by high potency doobage and they most
assuredly do not register as democrats. Also, it would be extremely rare that
following a right wing incident Noam Chomsky would appear and
publicly state that several of the
perpatrators assertions were accurate or based on real
grievances.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The contention that violence and violent rhetoric
is an exclusive property of the right is foolish. I'm sure that I could wander
around the net and find a list similar to the one posted by the curse of
Riverdale High showing the same sorts of things from a right of center
perspective and it would be equally flawed. Pretending that you are perpetually
one with the angels is to willfully disregard reality.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>g</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Andreas Schou" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:ophite@gmail.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>ophite@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: "the lockshop" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cc: "Reggie Holmquist" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>>;
"lfalen" <</FONT><A href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>lfalen@turbonet.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>>; "vision 2020"
<</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:30 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental
health</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Gary --<BR><BR>You've said this before, and you're wrong. Both Beddell
and Stack had<BR>clear connections to the American right. Stack was a member of
a<BR>militia-affiliated tax protest group, and Beddell was an
Objectivist<BR>anarcho-capitalist who operated a blog about Austrian economics.
He<BR>was unaccountably registered as a Democrat, but that seems
entirely<BR>unrelated to the reasons he fired on the Pentagon.<BR><BR>--
ACS<BR><BR>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM, the lockshop <</FONT><A
href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>>
wrote:<BR>> An impressively lenthy, but highly suspect list. (one can't help
but wonder<BR>> from where it might have been cribbed) Several problems throw
the entire<BR>> lists veracity into question, chief among them is the
inclusion of Joseph<BR>> Stack, John Patrick Bedell, and Jared Loughner as
individuals with some<BR>> conection to the right. Next time it might be a
good idea to review (and<BR>> cite) the material you choose to cut and paste.
Using non-factual<BR>> information to back up your faulty assertion that
another fellows argument<BR>> is flawed makes you look
foolish.<BR>><BR>> g<BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>>
From: Reggie Holmquist<BR>> To: lfalen<BR>> Cc: vision 2020<BR>> Sent:
Monday, January 31, 2011 1:12 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared
guy and mental health<BR>> Your faulty argument is based on the false premise
that there is an equal<BR>> amount of hate speech and violence coming from
both sides. Please consider<BR>> this short list so that you may disabuse
yourself of that false equivalency.<BR>><BR>> -Reggie<BR>><BR>> July
27, 2008—Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive<BR>>
church in Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it “a
symbolic<BR>> killing” because he really “wanted to kill…every Democrat in
the Senate &<BR>> House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book,” but
was unable to gain<BR>> access to them.<BR>><BR>> September 18,
2008—Dick Heller, the plaintiff from the case of District of<BR>> Columbia v.
Heller, provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding<BR>> firearm-related
legislation. Heller’s written, submitted testimony states,<BR>> in part: "‘We
the people,’ armed, are TRULY what the Writers of the<BR>> Constitution
intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15, and that is<BR>> the
CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our city, ARMED<BR>>
CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities in our
individual<BR>> neighborhoods.”<BR>><BR>> September 22, 2008—The
National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama<BR>> website, which
predicts that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama,<BR>> “if
elected…would be the most anti-gun president in American history.” The<BR>>
website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit
Obama.<BR>><BR>> December 9, 2008—FBI teams investigating the murder of
white supremacist<BR>> James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine, find
supplies for a crude<BR>> radiological dispersal dervice and other explosives
in his home. Cumming's<BR>> wife, who shot him to death after being abused by
him repeatedly, explains,<BR>> "His intentions were to construct a dirty bomb
and take it to Washington to<BR>> kill President Obama. He was planning to
hide it in the undercarriage of our<BR>> moter home."<BR>><BR>>
February 5, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an hour-long special
on<BR>> Fox called “We Surround Them,” a “grassroots effort to wake up our
Nation's<BR>> leaders and let them know what many, if not most, Americans
truly believe in<BR>> and stand for.”<BR>><BR>> February 20, 2009—FOX
commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games a<BR>> 2014 civil war
scenario called “The Bubba Effect.” It involves citizen<BR>> militias in the
South and West taking up arms against the U.S. government.<BR>><BR>> March
3, 2009— FOX commentator Glenn Beck interviews NRA celebrity spokesman<BR>>
Chuck Norris. During the interview, Beck states that, “Somebody asked me<BR>>
this morning, they said, ‘you really believe that there's going to be<BR>>
trouble in the future?’ And I said, ‘if this country starts to spiral out
of<BR>> control and, you know, and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it
really<BR>> starts to spiral out of control, before America allows a country
to become a<BR>> totalitarian country … Americans will, they just, they won't
stand for<BR>> it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up.’ And
they said,<BR>> ‘where's that going to come from?’ And I said, ‘Texas, it's
going to come<BR>> from Texas.’”<BR>><BR>> March 9, 2009—NRA celebrity
spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial<BR>> published at
WorldNetDaily: “How much more will Americans take? When will<BR>> enough be
enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen<BR>> or
will history need to record a second American Revolution?”<BR>><BR>> March
11, 2009—NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative<BR>>
Political Action Conference and announces that “Our Founding Fathers<BR>>
understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.”<BR>><BR>> March
21-22, 2009—Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she<BR>> wants
residents of her state to be “armed and dangerous on this issue of the<BR>>
energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having
a<BR>> revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people—we
the<BR>> people—are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to
lose our<BR>> country.”<BR>><BR>> April 4, 2009—Neo-Nazi Richard
Poplawski shoots and kills three police<BR>> officers responding to a 911
call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend<BR>> Edward Perkovic tells
reporters that Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban<BR>> that’s on its way”
and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.”<BR>> Perkovic also
commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because “if<BR>> anyone
tried to take his firearms, he was gonna’ stand by what his<BR>> forefathers
told him to do.”<BR>><BR>> April 7, 2009—The Department of Homeland
Security’s Office of Intelligence<BR>> and Analysis releases an assessment of
right wing extremism in the United<BR>> States. The Department notes that
“the economic downturn and the election of<BR>> the first African American
president present unique drivers for rightwing<BR>> radicalization and
recruitment.” Recalling the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by<BR>> Timothy
McVeigh, the Department speculates, “The possible passage of new<BR>>
restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing<BR>>
significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead
to<BR>> the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists
capable<BR>> of carrying out violent attacks.”<BR>><BR>> April 15,
2009—Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after he<BR>> openly
states on Twitter that he is going to turn the upcoming Oklahoma City<BR>>
“Tea Party” into a bloodbath. Two months earlier, Hayden had written
online,<BR>> “The only thing that is keeping the New World Order from
destroying this<BR>> nation is the presence of over 100,000,000 guns in
civilian hands. When guns<BR>> are outlawed, only criminals will have guns.
Since we are already criminals<BR>> in the eyes of the New World Order, and
they intend to enslave us all, and<BR>> to kill those of us who will NOT
submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE<BR>> gun "laws" and keep your guns
(AND ammo) handy.”<BR>><BR>> April 19, 2009—The Oath Keepers, an
anti-government group made up of current<BR>> and former law enforcement and
military personnel, holds its first "muster"<BR>> in Lexington,
Massachusetts, the site of the opening shots of the<BR>> Revolutionary War.
The groups' members pledge to disobey ten different<BR>> orders that they
deem "unconstitutional" and "immoral," the first of which<BR>> reads, "We
will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people."<BR>><BR>> April 25,
2009—Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National<BR>> Guard,
shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to<BR>>
arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an
enusing<BR>> gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was
"severely<BR>> disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected president.
Okaloosa County<BR>> Sheriff Edward Spooner states that Cartrwight was
"interested in militia<BR>> groups and weapons training."<BR>><BR>> May
2009—Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that threats<BR>>
to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in the
past<BR>> six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in 2008. Federal officials
blame a<BR>> number of parties, including the "sovereign citizen" movement—an
unorganized<BR>> grouping of tax protesters, white supremacists, and others
who don't respect<BR>> federal authority.<BR>><BR>> May 21-22, 2009—We
The People Chairman Bob Schultz hosts a gathering of 30<BR>> "freedom
keepers" in Jekyll Island, Georgia. The meeting plays "a key role<BR>> in
launching the current resurgence of militias and the larger<BR>>
anti-government 'Patriot' movement." One of the participants, former
Texas<BR>> militia leader Jon Roland, claims the federal government has "been
engaging<BR>> in warlike activity against the American
people."<BR>><BR>> May 31, 2009—Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr.
George Tiller, an abortion<BR>> provider, in the foyer of Reformation
Lutheran Church in Wichita,<BR>> Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of
the Montana Freemen, a radical<BR>> anti-government group. In April 1996, he
had been pulled over in Topeka,<BR>> Kansas, for driving with a homemade
license plate. Police found a<BR>> military-style rifle, ammunition, a
blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound<BR>> can of gunpowder, and two 9-volt
batteries in his car.<BR>><BR>> June 3, 2009—Hal Turner, a New Jersey
resident and white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio host, is arrested on
charges of inciting injury after calling<BR>> for the deaths of two
Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they<BR>> sponsored a bill
that would have transferred financial power in Roman<BR>> Catholic parishes
from priests and bishops to lay members. “While filing a<BR>> lawsuit is
quaint and the 'decent' way to handle things,” he wrote, “we at<BR>> TRN
(Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to a group of<BR>>
tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach. It's too soft. Thankfully,
the<BR>> Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve tyranny: The
Second<BR>> Amendment. TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take up arms
and put down<BR>> this tyranny by force ... If any state attorney, police
department or court<BR>> thinks they're going to get uppity with us about
this, I suspect we have<BR>> enough bullets to put them down,
too.”<BR>><BR>> June 10, 2009—James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a
“hardcore<BR>> Neo-Nazi,” walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C.<BR>> and shoots and kills a security guard. Von Brunn
believed that Western<BR>> civilization was going to be replaced with a “ONE
WORLD ILLUMINATI<BR>> GOVERNMENT” that would “confiscate private weapons” in
order to accomplish<BR>> its goals.<BR>><BR>> June 24, 2009—Hal Turner,
a New Jersey resident and white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio host, is
arrested again after calling for the murder of three<BR>>
Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals who had<BR>>
issued a June 2 decision upholding handgun restrictions in Chicago.
Writing<BR>> on his blog, Turner says, “Let me be the first to say this
plainly: these<BR>> judges deserve to be killed,” and includes photographs,
phone numbers, work<BR>> addresses, and room numbers of the judges, as well
as a map of Chicago’s<BR>> federal courthouse which points out its
“anti-truck bomb” pylons.<BR>><BR>> July 13, 2009—Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills
a police deputy in Chambers County,<BR>> Texas, with an assault rifle. Police
were responding to reports that Ortez<BR>> or his wife had fired shots at
utility workers in the area. Police searching<BR>> Ortez’s mobile home after
a 10-hour standoff find more than 100 explosive<BR>> devices; Nazi drawings
and extremist literature; and several additional<BR>>
firearms.<BR>><BR>> July 15, 2009—Katherine Crabill, a Republican
candidate for the Virginia<BR>> House of Delegates in the state’s 99th
District makes headlines by calling<BR>> on Americans to resist the course
President Obama has set for the country.<BR>> Appearing at a “Tea Party”
rally, Crabill quotes a 1775 speech by Patrick<BR>> Henry and then states,
“We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot<BR>> box before we have
to resort to the bullet box. But that's the beauty of our<BR>> Second
Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of<BR>> firearms
for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the<BR>>
Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against
tyranny.”<BR>> This thought is reinforced on Crabill’s campaign website,
where she states<BR>> the Second Amendment “was clearly intended for self
defense as well as, and<BR>> more specifically, to keep the government on
notice of an armed citizenry.”<BR>><BR>> July 31, 2009—On WWJB-AM in
Hernando County, Florida, talk radio host Bob<BR>> Haa takes a call from a
listener who mentions ammunition, target practice,<BR>> and Barack Obama. Haa
tells him not to waste his ammunition on targets, to<BR>> save it for the
administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the<BR>> Secret
Service.<BR>><BR>> August 11, 2009—William Kostric is filmed openly
carrying a handgun outside<BR>> of President Obama's health care reform town
hall meeting in New<BR>> Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads, "IT IS
TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF<BR>> LIBERTY!" a reference to the following Thomas
Jefferson quote: "The tree of<BR>> liberty must be refreshed from time to
time, with the blood of patriots and<BR>> tyrants."<BR>><BR>> August
17, 2009—Chris Broughton openly carries a handgun and AR-15<BR>>
semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally in Phoenix,<BR>> Arizona.
Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW Convention across<BR>> the
street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton states, “What do you<BR>>
think we did in the revolution, in the American Revolution? The British<BR>>
weren't stealing money from us for health care. They weren't taxing us
the<BR>> way they are now back then. And what did we do? We forcefully kicked
them<BR>> out of our country, and we will forcefully resist people imposing
their will<BR>> on us through the strength of the majority with a
vote.”<BR>><BR>> August 25, 2009—During a GOP barbecue in Twin Falls,
Idaho, an audience<BR>> member asks Rex Rammell, a candidate in the 2010
Idaho Republican Primary, a<BR>> question about "Obama tags" during a
discussion about state-issued tags for<BR>> wolf hunting. Rammell responds,
"The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those." In<BR>> a subsequent press release,
he adds, "Anyone who understands the law knows I<BR>> was just joking,
because Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue hunting tags in<BR>> Washington,
D.C."<BR>><BR>> August 26, 2009—At a secessionist rally on the state
capitol steps in<BR>> Austin, Texas, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina
states that, "We are<BR>> aware that stepping off into secession may in fact
be a bloody war. We are<BR>> aware. We understand that the tree of freedom is
occasionally watered with<BR>> the blood of tyrants and
patriots.”<BR>><BR>> September 9, 2009—With President Barack Obama at the
U.S. Capitol to address<BR>> a joint session of Congress on the subject of
health care reform, Joshua<BR>> Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Virginia,
attempts to drive his Honda Civic<BR>> into a secure area near the building.
U.S. Capitol Police stop him and,<BR>> searching his vehicle, find a rifle, a
shotgun, and 500 rounds of<BR>> ammunition. He is arrested on weapons
charges.<BR>><BR>> September 25-26, 2009—Kitty Werthmann, a speaker at the
“How to Take Back<BR>> America” Conference in St. Louis, tells her audience,
“If we had our guns<BR>> [during the time of the Nazis’ reign in Germany], we
would have fought a<BR>> bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more
guns, and buy<BR>> ammunition. Take back America. Don’t let them take the
country into<BR>> Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler’s party was National
Socialism. And<BR>> that’s what we are having here right now, which is
bordering on Marxism.”<BR>><BR>> September 28, 2009—Rep. Paul Broun
(R-GA), the Chairman of the Second<BR>> Amendment Task Force in the U.S.
House of Representatives, calls House<BR>> Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “domestic
enemy of the Constitution” at a health care<BR>> reform town hall
meeting.<BR>><BR>> September 29, 2009—An editorial at the Newsmax website
calls for a military<BR>> coup to oust President Obama.<BR>><BR>>
September 30, 2009—The Michelangelo Signorile Show, a talk radio program
on<BR>> Sirus, takes a call from “Jim” from Oklahoma, who claims that he and
200<BR>> others are meeting weekly to stage a coup against President Obama.
Jim says<BR>> they want to restore their "a right to bear arms" and bring the
country back<BR>> to where it was 400 years ago, before slavery was
abolished.<BR>><BR>> October 18-19, 2009—Reports emerge that the Secret
Service has received an<BR>> unprecedented number of death threats against
President Obama. Ronald<BR>> Kessler's account of presidential security, In
the President's Secret<BR>> Service, states that there has been a 400%
increase in such threats in<BR>> comparison with Obama’s predecessor. Another
source of these reports is an<BR>> August 5, 2009 study by the Congressional
Research Service which finds:<BR>> “The [Secret] Service’s protection mission
has increased and become more<BR>> ‘urgent’ due to the increase in terrorist
threats and the expanded arsenal<BR>> of weapons that terrorists could use in
an assassination attempt or attacks<BR>> on facilities.”<BR>><BR>>
October 21, 2009—John Brek, a 55 year-old Newark Airport security guard,
is<BR>> arrested for making terroristic threats against President Obama.
Authorities<BR>> find 43 firearms while searching his home, including a
stolen rifle. Brek, a<BR>> National Rifle Association member, is also found
to be in possession of<BR>> illegal hollow point bullets.<BR>><BR>>
November 2009—Billboard is erected on I-70 in Lafayette County,
Missouri,<BR>> that promotes "a citizens guide to REVOLUTION." It urges
Missourians to<BR>> "LIVE FREE OR DIE" and "PREPARE FOR WAR" with a corrupt
government. The<BR>> billboard is highlighted at the Lafayette County
Republicans website.<BR>><BR>> November 11-22, 2009—More than 100
delegates from across the country attend<BR>> a "Continental Congress" hosted
by We The People. Attendees include<BR>> Neo-Confederate secessionists,
"Common Law Court" enthusiasts, adherents of<BR>> the "Sovereign Citizens"
movement, militia backers, and other radicals.<BR>> Planned at an earlier May
meeting in Jekyll Island, the Congress issues a<BR>> document entitled the
"Articles of Freedom" which declares that the federal<BR>> government "now
threatens our Life, Liberty and Property through usurpations<BR>> of the
Constitution."<BR>><BR>> November 29, 2009—Conservative web publisher
Andrew Breitbart tweets,<BR>> "Capital punishment for Dr James Hansen.
Climategate is high treason."<BR>> Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, is a noted<BR>> researcher on the effect of
greenhouse gas emissions and an activist who has<BR>> called for public
policies to mitigate the effects of global warming.<BR>><BR>> December 23,
2009—Warren "Gator" Taylor takes three people hostage at a<BR>> federal post
office in Wytheville, Virginia. He is armed with four guns,<BR>> including a
.40-caliber Glock pistol, despite a criminal record that<BR>> includes
convictions for lewd and lascivious beheavior with a 13 year-old<BR>> and
attempted second-degree murder (Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a<BR>>
parking lot in 1993). Taylor fires at least three rounds before the<BR>>
stand-off ends, including one at the station's fleeing postmaster. One
of<BR>> Taylor's hostages reports that he was angry about taxes and "the
government<BR>> taking over the right to bear arms."<BR>><BR>> January
2010—A group of nearly 200 "extremely concerned citizens" in Ravalli<BR>>
County, Montana, demand that local elected officials fill out a<BR>>
"questionnaire" pledging to form a local militia, prohibit mandatory<BR>>
vaccinations, allow citizens to bear any type of firearms they choose<BR>>
(including fully automatic machine guns), and require federal government<BR>>
employees to get written approval before approaching "any Citizen" in
the<BR>> county. The questionnaire is organized in part by Celebrating
Conservatism,<BR>> a group with direct ties to the militia
movement.<BR>><BR>> January 2, 2010—More than 300 people attend a rally in
Alamogordo, New<BR>> Mexico, organized by the local Otero Tea Party Patriots
and Second Amendment<BR>> Task Force. The purpose of the rally is to protest
health care reform, and<BR>> many of the rally's participants openly carry
handguns and/or rifles. One<BR>> attendee states that his handgun is a “very
open threat” to the “socialist<BR>> communists” in the Obama Administration.
“The government fears the people,<BR>> and a disarmed people are slaves,” he
says. “Political power comes from the<BR>> barrel of a gun ... They’re
pushing us to our limits.”<BR>><BR>> January 12, 2010—Mark Campano of
Cuyhaoga Falls, Ohio, pleads not guilty to<BR>> charges of possessing
destructive devices not registered with the federal<BR>> government. Law
enforcement are called to Campano's apartment in November<BR>> 2009 after he
accidentally detonates a pipe bomb and loses parts of two<BR>> fingers. They
find 30 pipe bombs, 17 rifles and handguns, and hundreds of<BR>> rounds of
ammunition in the dwelling. Campano's next-door neighbor states,<BR>> "He was
always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to<BR>>
anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos ... He was some
kind<BR>> of radical, and he didn't believe in the
government."<BR>><BR>> January 12, 2010—Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former
Marine with ties to Tea<BR>> Parties and far-right-wing organizations like
Oath Keepers, is arrested at<BR>> his home on charges of raping a 7 year
old-girl. Sheriff's deputies find<BR>> several firearms inside Dyer's home
and a Colt M-203 40mm grenade launcher,<BR>> which was stolen from a military
base in Fort Irwin, California, in 2006.<BR>> Dyer had been an organizer of
militia groups in Oklahoma and told one<BR>> interviewer, "I'm going to use
my training and become one of those domestic<BR>> terrorists that you're so
afraid of from the [Department of Homeland<BR>> Security (DHS)] reports." In
another video, Dyer states, "With DHS blatantly<BR>> calling patriots,
veterans, and constitutionalists a threat, all that I have<BR>> to say is
you’re damn right we're a threat. We're a threat to anyone that<BR>>
endangers our rights and the Constitution of this republic."<BR>><BR>>
February 9, 2010—Gregory Girard of Manchester, Massachusetts, is
arrested<BR>> for weapons charges after police find 20 firearms, thousands of
rounds of<BR>> ammunition, and explosive devices in his home. Girard's wife
says that her<BR>> husband recently told her, "Don't talk to people, shoot
them instead." In a<BR>> January 30 post at a popular website affiliated with
the Tea Party movement,<BR>> Girard stated: "We have been in a state of war
and state of emergency of<BR>> some time for decades uninterupted ... The
entire body of these War Powers<BR>> and 'continuity of gov't' plans render
our concept of a Constitutional<BR>> Republic to be little more than thin
veil of civility and justice layered<BR>> over a monsterous, diabolic
dictatorship that would break out of political<BR>> cage but for Americans
vigorously exercising their 2nd Amendment rights ...<BR>> As it stands today
at start of 2010, there is never a time that our gov't<BR>> would find itself
without some excuse, no matter how perverse, as the<BR>> justification for
unleashing their murderous 'War Powers' monster upon the<BR>> public, in an
attempt to subject us to tyranny."<BR>><BR>> February 13, 2010—An
unidentified speaker at an event organized by the Lewis<BR>> and Clark Tea
Party Patriots in Asotin County, Washington, tells the<BR>> audience, "How
many of you have watched the movie "Lonesome Dove"? What<BR>> happened to
Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's<BR>> what I
want to do with [Democratic U.S. Senator] Patty Murray."<BR>><BR>>
February 18, 2010—Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies a single-engine
plane<BR>> into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees,
killing one and<BR>> wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack lays out his
grievances with the<BR>> federal tax agency, stating, "The law 'requires' a
signature on the bottom<BR>> of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully
that they understand what<BR>> they are signing; if that's not 'duress' than
what is. If this is not the<BR>> measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is
... Violence not only is the<BR>> answer, it is the only
answer."<BR>><BR>> February 19, 2010—Johnny Logan, Jr. of Louisville,
Kentucky, is arrested and<BR>> charged with making threats against the
president after his poem titled "The<BR>> Sniper" is found on the website
NaziSpace/NewSaxon.org by the U.S. Secret<BR>> Service. The poem reads, in
part: "As the tyrant enters his cross hairs the<BR>> breath he takes is deep.
His focus is square on the target as he begins to<BR>> release. A patriot for
his people he knows this shot will cost his life. But<BR>> for his race and
their existence it is a small sacrifice. The bullet that he<BR>> has
chambered is one of the purest pride. And the inspiration on the casing<BR>>
reads DIE negro DIE. He breathes out as he pulls the trigger releasing
all<BR>> his hate. And a smile appears upon his face as he seals that
monkey's fate.<BR>> The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it
death. And where there<BR>> was once a face there is nothing left. Two blood
covered agents stare in<BR>> horror and dismay. Looking down toward the
ground where their president now<BR>> lay."<BR>><BR>> February
2010—Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty soldier at Fort Drum<BR>> and
member of Oath Keepers, tells a reporter that he and five fellow service<BR>>
members at the Army base are preparing to take on the U.S. government
when<BR>> it declares martial law, and will turn their guns on their fellow
soldiers<BR>> should it become necessary. "I know their tactics," says Pray.
"I know how<BR>> they...work their convoys—if we attack this vehicle, what
the others will do<BR>> ... If the government continues to ignore us, and
forces us to engage, I'm<BR>> willing to fight to the death."<BR>><BR>>
March 2010—The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces that 2009 saw
a<BR>> dramatic increase in the number of new anti-government "Patriot"
groups in<BR>> the United States. Specifically, the number of Patriot groups
jumped from<BR>> 149 (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) in
2009—a 244%<BR>> jump.<BR>><BR>> March 2, 2010—FOX News commentator
Bill O'Reilly, speaking about the<BR>> McDonald v. Chicago case before the
Supreme Court, declares that plaintiff<BR>> Otis McDonald's inability to own
a handgun in Chicago amounts to "tyranny."<BR>> Predicting that four justices
on the Court will side with the city of<BR>> Chicago, O'Reilly states, "It's
interesting that in America today the far<BR>> Left that wants the government
to call the shots, not the folks. In the<BR>> past, Right-Wing extremists
like Hitler and Mussolini were in the forefront<BR>> of state control. But
with the exception of Burma, today's totalitarians are<BR>> primarily on the
Left."<BR>><BR>> March 4, 2010—John Patrick Bedell, a California resident,
travels to<BR>> Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on police officers at the
entrance to<BR>> the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with two semiautomatic
firearms and "many<BR>> [ammunition] magazines." Bedell injures two officers
before he is killed by<BR>> return fire. Reports reveals Bedell to be a
Truther who believed that the<BR>> U.S. government had been taken over by a
criminal organization in a 1963<BR>> coup. In an Internet posting, he writes,
"This organization, like so many<BR>> murderous governments throughout
history, would see the sacrifice of<BR>> thousands of its citizens, in an
event such as the September 11 attacks, as<BR>> a small cost in order to
perpetuate its barbaric control."<BR>><BR>> March 19-22, 2010—During
consideration of health care reform legislation by<BR>> the U.S. House of
Representatives, vandals attack Democratic offices in<BR>> Pleasant Ridge,
Ohio; Wichita, Kansas; Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New<BR>> York; and
Rochester, New York. Mike Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the<BR>>
Alabama Constitutional Militia, takes credit for the violence after
posting<BR>> a blog on March 19 that states, "If we break the windows of
hundreds,<BR>> thousands, of Democratic party headquarters across this
country, we might<BR>> just make up enough of them to make defending
ourselves at the muzzle of a<BR>> rifle unnecessary." Several Democratic
members receive death threats,<BR>> including Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY),
who is told snipers will "kill the<BR>> children of the members who voted
YES"; Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who<BR>> receives a message saying, "You're
dead; we know where you live; we'll get<BR>> you"; and Rep. Betsy Markey
(D-CO), whose staffer is told by a caller,<BR>> "Better hope I don't run into
you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a<BR>> gun." House Minority
Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus<BR>> (D-OH), says he
"may be a dead man."<BR>><BR>> March 21, 2010—As the U.S. House of
Representatives enters a final round of<BR>> debate over a controversial
health care reform bill, Conservative blogger<BR>> Solomon "Solly" Forrell
calls for the assassination of President Barack<BR>> Obama on his Twitter
account. In two separate postings, Forrel writes,<BR>> "ASSASSINATION!
America, we survived the #Assassinations of #Lincoln &<BR>> #Kennedy.
We'll surely get over a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head! ... The next<BR>>
#American with a #Clear #Shot should drop #Obama like a bad
habit."<BR>><BR>> March 21, 2010—Russell Laing, 52, is charged with
aggravated assault and<BR>> making terroristic threats after a four-hour
standoff with police at his<BR>> home in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Officers
were responding to a 911 call<BR>> after Laing called a friend and said he
couldn't walk. When police responded<BR>> to the call, Laing pointed an
assault rifle at them and cocked the weapon.<BR>> After Laing was arrested,
officers recovered approximately 150 guns and<BR>> 15,000 rounds of
ammunition from Laing's one-bedroom apartment. "I can't<BR>> explain it. In
my 40 years, I've not seen that type of collection," said<BR>> McCandless
Police Chief Gary Anderson.<BR>><BR>> March 23, 2010—After Mike Troxel of
the Lynchburg Tea Party and Nigel<BR>> Coleman of the Danville Tea Party post
the home address of the brother of<BR>> Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge
supporters to "drop by," someone<BR>> deliberately cuts a propane gas line at
the house. Rep. Perriello is<BR>> targeted by the Tea Party activists because
of his vote in favor of health<BR>> care reform. Perriello's brother and his
wife have four children under the<BR>> age of eight.<BR>><BR>> March
24, 2010—After voting for health care reform legislation, Rep. Bart<BR>>
Stupak (D-MI) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) receive faxes with drawings
of<BR>> nooses.<BR>><BR>> March 25, 2010—Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY),
who voted for health care reform<BR>> legislation, receives a package
containing white powder and an angry letter<BR>> telling him to "drop dead
."<BR>><BR>> March 26, 2010—Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR), who voted for health
care reform<BR>> legislation, receives a letter stating, "It is apparent that
it will take a<BR>> few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has
selected you for<BR>> assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in
Washington, D.C., we will<BR>> get you in Little Rock."<BR>><BR>> March
26, 2010—NRA Board Member Ted Nugent makes the following comment on<BR>> FOX
News' "Your World" program: “I’m the expert on the health care bill<BR>>
because I kill pigs and a just shot a monster big pig here in Texas and<BR>>
seeing as how this is a pig bill created by pig bureaucrats to help out<BR>>
American pigs … We gotta’ kill the pig.”<BR>><BR>> March 29, 2010—A
Northeast Philadelphia man, Norman Leboon, is charged with<BR>> threatening
the life of Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). Leboon, 38, is<BR>> arrested by
the FBI after posting a YouTube video in which he referred to<BR>> Cantor's
family and threatened,"bulllets...will be placed in your heads."<BR>> Leboon
made hundreds of YouTube videos with anti-government themes, and<BR>>
threatened others, including President Barack Obama, the Democratic<BR>>
Leadership in Congress, and the Pope. Leboon has a long history of
mental<BR>> illness, but was able to obtain a concealed handgun permit in
Pennsylvania,<BR>> which alarmed his family.<BR>><BR>> March 29,
2010—Nine members of the MIchigan-based "Hutaree" Christian<BR>> militia are
arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy and attempting to<BR>> deploy
weapons of mass destruction. The group had allegedly plotted to kill<BR>> a
law enforcement officer and then detonate improvised explosive devices<BR>>
(IEDs) during the officer's funeral procession. The group targeted
federal<BR>> officials, members of the law enforcement "brotherhood" and
other<BR>> participants in the "New World Order."<BR>><BR>> March 30,
2010—Dozens of sitting governors receive letters from an extremist<BR>>
anti-government group called the Guardians of the Free Republics. The<BR>>
letters demand that the governors leave office within three days or
"they<BR>> will be removed" from office. A page on the group's website
entitled<BR>> "Rationale" reads, "For those who are concerned about opening
the door to<BR>> satanic forces, permit me to reassure you. The Guardian
Elders deliberated<BR>> with great sobriety the wisdom of sitting on our
hands while the march to<BR>> World War III continues."<BR>><BR>> April
1, 2010—CNN commentator Erick Erickson, questioning the legality of<BR>> the
U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), makes the<BR>>
following comment on WMAC-AM radio: “We have become, or are becoming,<BR>>
enslaved by the government ... I dare ‘em to try to come throw me in jail.
I<BR>> dare ‘em to. [I’ll] pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little
ACS<BR>> twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my
property.”<BR>><BR>> April 1-20, 2010—Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of
American Grand Jury (AGJ),<BR>> attempts to effect a citizen's arrest on
grand jury foreman Gary Pettway at<BR>> the Monroe County courthouse in
Madisonville, Tennessee, and is arrested.<BR>> Nineteen days later, on the
day that Fitzpatrick is scheduled to face trial,<BR>> Oath Keepers member
Darren Huff is pulled over by Tennessee state troopers<BR>> as he attempts to
drive to the courthouse to arrest county officials he<BR>> calls "domestic
enemies of the United States engaged in treason." Huff is<BR>> armed with a
Colt-45 handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle with 300-400 rounds<BR>> of
ammunition. He is indicted on federal charges of traveling in interstate<BR>>
commerce with intent to incite a riot and transporting in commerce a
firearm<BR>> in furtherance of a civil disorder.<BR>><BR>> April 6,
2010—Authorities charge Charles Alan Wilson of Selah, Washington,<BR>> with
threatening a federal official after Wilson makes several phone calls<BR>> to
the office of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). Wilson, a concealed handgun<BR>>
permit holder in Washington, was angry about Sen. Murray's vote for
health<BR>> care reform legislation and told her she had "a target on her
back." He also<BR>> told Murray, "Since you are going to put my life at risk,
and some<BR>> bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is
at risk, dear<BR>> ... I hope somebody puts a...bullet between
your...eyes."<BR>><BR>> April 7, 2010—Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San
Francisco, California, is<BR>> arrested for making threatening phone calls to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<BR>> (D-CA). Giusti allegedly called Pelosi dozens
of times, recited her home<BR>> address, and told her that if she wanted to
see it again, she should drop<BR>> her support for health care reform
legislation. Giusti had a "history of<BR>> mental health problems" and his
mother indicated he was influenced by "Fox<BR>> News and all of those that
are really radical."<BR>><BR>> April 7, 2010—Brody James Whitaker, 37, is
apprehended and arrested on<BR>> charges including two counts of aggravated
assault on a law enforcement<BR>> officer, aggravated fleeing, and attempting
to elude. The charges stem from<BR>> an incident on March 25, 2010 in which
police attempted to pull Whitaker<BR>> over for a traffic violation on I-75
in Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led<BR>> officers on a high-speed chase,
fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun, and<BR>> escaped capture. During his
arraignment hearing, Whitaker questions the<BR>> authority of the judge and
states, "I am a sovereign. I am not an American<BR>>
citizen."<BR>><BR>> April 10, 2010—At a "Second Amendment March" organized
by the Connecticut<BR>> Citizens Defense League, Martha Dean, the
Republican-endorsed candidate for<BR>> Attorney General in Connecticut, tells
those in attendance, "If government<BR>> is legitimate and truly is the voice
of the people, it need never fear the<BR>> people themselves when they’re
armed. Only a government that uses secrecy<BR>> and force to impose improper
laws [to] which the people do not consent need<BR>> fear the wrath of its
law-abiding citizens at the ballot box or, ultimately,<BR>> with arms … Our
right of free speech and to back it up with arms if<BR>> necessary if our
government becomes tyrannical and unjust as King George’s<BR>> was to the
colonists are the most essential of the rights we as Americans<BR>> have ...
I will oppose all efforts to create nonsensical distinctions that<BR>> are
nowhere supported by our constitutions between different types of<BR>>
firearms. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the government
gets<BR>> the effective firearms and the people the ineffective ones. Nowhere
in our<BR>> Constitution does it say that the government gets the modern
firearms and<BR>> the citizens only get the antiquated ones."<BR>><BR>>
April 13, 2010—Reports surface that state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R-OK) and
Rep.<BR>> Charles Key (R-OK) have met with Oklahoma Tea Party groups to
discuss the<BR>> formation of a new "volunteer militia" to defend against
what they see as<BR>> improprer federal infringements on state sovereignty.
Brogdon states that<BR>> the Founding Fathers "were not referring to a turkey
shoot or a quail hunt.<BR>> They really weren't even talking about us having
the ability to protect<BR>> ourselves against each other. The Second
Amendment deals directly with the<BR>> right of an individual to keep and
bear arms to protect themselves from an<BR>> overreaching federal
government." One Tea Party leader involved in these<BR>> meetings, J.W. Berry
of the Tulsa-based OKforTea group, has called for the<BR>> Militia to "launch
a thousand guerrilla attacks on the plans that these<BR>> people have to ruin
us and our country."<BR>><BR>> April 19, 2010—Pro-gun activists conduct
two rallies in the Washington, D.C.<BR>> area to demonstrate their opposition
to an "oppressive, totalitarian<BR>> government." Among the featured speakers
at the events are current and<BR>> former militia leaders and others with
ties to extreme, anti-government<BR>> groups. The choice of date is
significant, as April 19 marks the anniversary<BR>> of the first shots being
fired in the American Revolution at the Battle of<BR>> Lexington/Concord, the
fiery conclusion to the 1993 siege at Waco, and the<BR>> 1995 bombing of the
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh. At<BR>> the "Second
Amendment March" in the District of Columbia, Larry Pratt, the<BR>> Executive
Director of Gun Owners of America, states, "We're in a war. The<BR>> other
side knows they are at war, because they started it. They are coming<BR>> for
our freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They are<BR>>
coming for everything because they are a bunch of Socialists." Mike<BR>>
Vanderboegh, who made national headlines after taking credit for several<BR>>
instances of vandalism at Democratic offices following votes on health
care<BR>> reform legislation, is the featured speaker at a rally in Fort Hunt
National<BR>> Park in Virginia, where he tells attendees, "Whenever the
legislators<BR>> endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the
people, or to reduce<BR>> them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put
themselves into a state of<BR>> war with the people, who are thereupon
absolved from any further obedience<BR>> ... This is what the other side
doesn’t understand! We are doing backing up!<BR>> Done! Not one more
inch."<BR>><BR>> May 4, 2010—A questioner at a Heritage Foundation event
asks speaker Rep.<BR>> Eric Cantor the question, "In light of what Obama has
done to leave us<BR>> vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us
vulnerable to outside<BR>> enemies, and to slight our allies ... What would
he have to do differently<BR>> to be defined as a domestic enemy?" After
smiling and stating that "no one<BR>> thinks that the president is a domestic
enemy," Cantor is booed by several<BR>> members of the
audience.<BR>><BR>> May 6, 2010—Dr. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican
candidate in South<BR>> Carolina's 4th Congressional District, posts a
YouTube video where she holds<BR>> an AK-47 assault rifle and tells viewers,
"Why do we have the Second<BR>> Amendment? The Second Amendment ensures all
of our other rights ... The<BR>> Second Amendment was placed in the
Constitution, plainly, to ensure that our<BR>> limited government stayed
limited and that we would be able to enforce those<BR>> limitations if need
be ... We are a sovereign people. A sovereign people is<BR>> an armed
people."<BR>><BR>> May 15, 2010—At the National Rifle Association's annual
meeting in<BR>> Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012 Republican presidential
nominee hopeful Newt<BR>> Gingrich tells the audience, "The Second Amendment
is not in defense of<BR>> hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting.
It is not in defense of<BR>> collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense
of freedom from the State."<BR>> He goes on to make the following reference
to Thomas Jefferson's "The tree<BR>> of liberty must be refreshed from time
to time with the blood of patriots<BR>> and tyrants" quote: "Anybody who's
historically honest has to admit [the<BR>> Founding Fathers] understood the
right to bear arms because they routinely<BR>> carried arms. These were tough
people in a tough time in a tough country<BR>> doing tough things and the
idea that they would allow some D.C. city<BR>> government or some Washington
federal bureaucrat to get between them and<BR>> their Constitutional rights,
they would have said in Jefferson's terms was<BR>> the legitimate
justification for a political revolution in every generation<BR>> which was
what Jefferson thought was inevitable to clean out the corruption,<BR>> the
arrogance, and the obsolenscence that government would invariably
have."<BR>><BR>> May 15, 2010—Referring to a controversial new
anti-immigration law in<BR>> Arizona, FOX News personality Glenn Beck tells
the 2010 NRA Convention,<BR>> "Let's talk a minute about a 'well-regulated
militia' and why you might need<BR>> one because the government isn't doing
their job. Let's meet people in<BR>> Texas, Arizona and
California."<BR>><BR>> May 20, 2010—Jerry Kane, Jr., 45, and his son
Joseph Kane, 16, fatally shoot<BR>> two Arkansas police officers with AK-47
assault rifles during a routine<BR>> traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West
Memphis. The Kanes are killed during<BR>> an exchange of gunfire with police
in a Walmart parking lot 90 minutes<BR>> later. Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident
and anti-government activist, had a long<BR>> history with police and had
recently spent three days in jail for driving<BR>> with an expired license
plate and no seat belt. Kane considered himself a<BR>> "sovereign citizen"
and ran a business that centered on debt-avoidance<BR>>
scams.<BR>><BR>> May 27, 2010—The Washington Times publishes an editorial
claiming that a<BR>> United Nations treaty seeking to curb the international,
illicit trade in<BR>> smalls arms "would necessarily lead to confication of
personal firearms" in<BR>> the United States. The editorial goes on to say,
"Not all insurgencies are<BR>> bad. As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid
of a despotic regime is to<BR>> rise up against it. That threat is why
authoritarian regimes such as Syria,<BR>> Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe,
and Sierra Leone endorse gun control ...<BR>> Governments are a bigger threat
to most people than their neighbors."<BR>><BR>> May 30, 2010—Sharron
Angle, a candidate for the Republican nomination for<BR>> U.S. Senator in
Nevada, tells the Reno Gazette-Journal that a recent<BR>> increase in gun
sales nationwide "tells me that the nation is arming. What<BR>> are they
arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of government?<BR>>
They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second<BR>>
Amendment kinds of ways." These comments echo ones made by Angle in
January,<BR>> when she told conservative radio show talk host Lars Larson,
"You know, our<BR>> Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there
for a good reason<BR>> and that was for the people to protect themselves
against a tyrannical<BR>> government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's
good for a country to<BR>> have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's
not where we're going, but,<BR>> you know, if this Congress keeps going the
way it is, people are really<BR>> looking toward those Second Amendment
remedies and saying my goodness what<BR>> can we do to turn this country
around? I'll tell you the first thing we need<BR>> to do is take [U.S.
Senator from Nevada] Harry Reid out."<BR>><BR>> May 31, 2010—Oath Keeper
Rex Nichols, a candidate for sheriff in Montana's<BR>> Lincoln County, makes
reference to federal agents' standoffs at Ruby Ridge<BR>> in 1992 and Waco in
1993 and promises to keep them out of the county if<BR>> elected. "I am going
to take my deputies and stand in the middle of the road<BR>> and tell them to
get the hell out," says Nichols. "And if they want a war,<BR>> they got
it."<BR>><BR>> June 2010—Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the
Republican<BR>> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a
campaign ad in<BR>> which he dicusses contemporary political issues with
America's Founding<BR>> Fathers. After Barber states "I would impeach him"
and rails about the<BR>> "progressive income tax," the Internal Revenue
Service, and health care<BR>> reform, a Founding Father replies, "Gather your
armies." Several Founding<BR>> Fathers are depicted as being armed with
pistols.<BR>><BR>> June 9, 2010—Addressing the Obama administration and
the<BR>> Democratic-controlled Congress, FOX commentator Glenn Beck says,
"Tea<BR>> parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to
the<BR>> principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them.
Shoot<BR>> me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me
in the<BR>> head if you try to change our government. I will stand against
you and so<BR>> will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the
media and most<BR>> in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington
have co-opted and<BR>> brought in wearing sheep's clothing—change the pose.
You will get the ends.<BR>> You've been using them? They believe in
communism. They believe and have<BR>> called for a revolution. You're going
to have to shoot them in the head."<BR>><BR>> June 9, 2010—Justine Haynes,
31, of Phoenix is charged with threatening to<BR>> kill a federal official
after making two calls to the office of U.S. Rep.<BR>> Raul Grijalva (D-AZ).
Haynes was incensed over Grijalva's opposition to<BR>> Arizona's
controversial new immigration law and threatened to come to the<BR>>
Congressman's office and “blow everyone's head off."<BR>><BR>> June 27,
2010—Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican<BR>>
nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad
in<BR>> which he compares taxation and "the tyrannical health care bill" to
slavery<BR>> and the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. "We live in
perilous times<BR>> ... We are all becoming slaves to our government," Barber
warns. The "army<BR>> of voters" depicted in the ad includes individuals who
are openly armed with<BR>> guns. In a follow-up editorial in the Washington
Post, Barber makes<BR>> reference to "the possibility of evil conducted on a
grand scale" and<BR>> states, "Totalitarianism doesn't come all at once ...
The road to serfdom is<BR>> a long one, but I fear that we are well on the
way."<BR>><BR>> July 2, 2010—The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends
sales tax<BR>> collections at the state's gun shows because of "increasing
animosity"<BR>> toward field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the
department's Excise Tax<BR>> Division, cites one particular incident at a gun
show that "crossed the<BR>> line" and says, "We tend to have more trouble at
gun shows than any place<BR>> ... I have 10 field reps throughout the state,
and every one of them has<BR>> experienced some animosity ... I don't want to
put my people at risk."<BR>><BR>> July 3, 2010—Joyce Kaufman, a
conservative radio hosts on WFTL in Florida,<BR>> tells a crowd of supporters
at a Fort Lauderdale Tea Party event, “I am<BR>> convinced that the most
important thing the Founding Fathers did to ensure<BR>> me my First
Amendments rights was they gave me a Second Amendment. And if<BR>> ballots
don’t work, bullets will. This is the standoff. When I say I’ll put<BR>> my
microphone down on November 2nd if we haven’t achieved substantial<BR>>
victory, I mean it. Because if at that point I’m going to up into the
hills<BR>> of Kentucky, I’m going to go out into the Midwest, I’m going to go
up in the<BR>> Vermont and New Hampshire outreaches and I’m going to gather
together men<BR>> and women who understand that some things are worth
fighting for and some<BR>> things are worth dying for.”<BR>><BR>> July
6, 2010—Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of America, tells Religion<BR>>
Dispatches, "If you have a people that has basically been disarmed by
the<BR>> civil government, then there really isn't any effectual means
available to<BR>> the people to restore law and liberty and that's really the
purpose of the<BR>> right to keep and bear arms—is to defend yourself against
a tyrant." Titus<BR>> goes on to cite the "totalitarian threat" posed by
"Obamacare" and "what<BR>> Sarah Palin said about the death
panels."<BR>><BR>> July 11, 2010—Supporters of Tea Party candidate Joe
Miller openly carry<BR>> assault rifles and handguns during a community
parade in Eagle River and<BR>> Chugiak, Alaska, while young children march
alongside them. Miller, who is<BR>> running against Senator Lisa Murkowski in
the Republican primary, was<BR>> endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah
Palin, who described him as a “true<BR>> Commonsense Constitutional
Conservative.”<BR>><BR>> July 18, 2010—California Highway Patrol officers
arrest Byron Williams, 45,<BR>> after a shootout on I-580 in which more than
60 rounds are fired. Officers<BR>> had pulled Williams over in his pick-up
for speeding and weaving in and out<BR>> of traffic when he opened fire on
them with a handgun and a long gun.<BR>> Williams, a convicted felon, is shot
several times, but survives because he<BR>> is wearing body armor. Williams,
a convicted felon, reveals that he was on<BR>> his way to San Francisco to
"start a revolution" by killing employees of the<BR>> ACLU and Tides
Foundation. Williams' mother says her son was angry at<BR>> "Left-wing
politicians" and upset by "the way Congress was railroading<BR>> through all
these Left-wing agenda items."<BR>><BR>> July 26, 2010—A proposed
ordinance that would prohibit residents from firing<BR>> air rifles and other
low-powered weapons within 500 feet of a building<BR>> (unless fired in a
target range) is pulled from consideration in Exeter<BR>> Township,
Pennsylvania, after the Board of Supervisors receives a number of<BR>> angry
and threatening phone calls from gun owners. Citing a National Rifle<BR>>
Association "Action Alert" that claimed Exeter supervisors were<BR>>
"consider[ing] a broad and overreaching attack on our Second Amendment<BR>>
freedoms," Exeter Township Police Chief Christopher Neidert says, "This
was<BR>> totally false information that was put out. The anger was building,
and I<BR>> was concerned that someone might actually get
hurt."<BR>><BR>> July 28, 2010—U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) shuts down
his district office<BR>> in Yuma after staff members discover a bullet hole
in one of the office's<BR>> windows. Authorities also report that U.S. Judge
Susan Bolton receives<BR>> hundreds of threats at her Phoenix offices after
issuing an injunction on<BR>> Arizona's controversial new immigration
law.<BR>><BR>> July 29, 2010—Jack Dailey, the founder of the Appleseed
Project (which is<BR>> dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a
bullet through a man-size<BR>> target out to 500 yards), explains that
Americans should own an AR-15<BR>> assault rifle "because they want to tell
us what to do. And we don't want<BR>> them to tell us what to do." James
Faire, an Appleseed trainer, states that,<BR>> "the government has quite
literally become tyrannical. It is fulfilling the<BR>> principles outlined in
The Communist Manifesto. It's completely out of<BR>> control from city to
state to federal to international law. All predicate<BR>> their existence on
plundering the individual and his rights. The only thing<BR>> to do now is to
organize citizens into a militia to abolish this<BR>>
government."<BR>><BR>> July 30, 2010—Camp Hill prison guard Raymond Peake,
64, is charged with<BR>> robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen. Peake
allegedly shot Getgen to death<BR>> at a local shooting range and stole
Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle.<BR>> Investigators follow Peake to a
storage unit when they find three firearms:<BR>> Getgen's AR-15 rifle, a
scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen<BR>> from the range in
May, and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also<BR>> arrested and charged
with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other<BR>> crimes. Peake tells
police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for the<BR>> purpose of
overthrowing the federal government."<BR>><BR>> August 14, 2010—Former
Arizona sheriff Richard Mack—who gained fame in<BR>> anti-government circles
by joining a mid-1990s lawsuit against the federal<BR>> government over the
Brady Bill requirement that state law enforcement<BR>> agencies conduct
background checks on gun purchasers—tells those in<BR>> attendance at the
American Policy Center's 2010 Freedom Action Natonal<BR>> Conference, "My
dear friends, I pray for the day that the first sheriff in<BR>> this country
is the one to fire the shot heard 'round the world and take out<BR>> some IRS
agents!"<BR>><BR>> August 17, 2010—Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on
the Department of<BR>> Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully
attempts to ignite<BR>> gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched to
his truck. Sharp is<BR>> armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber
semiautomatic pistol, and a<BR>> 12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an
exchange of gunfire with police<BR>> arriving on the scene. Miraculously, no
one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate,<BR>> Eric McClellan describes him as "a
great guy" and states, "We're Texans. We<BR>> have a right to bear
arms."<BR>><BR>> August 19, 2010—Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County,
Florida, is arrested<BR>> after threatening to "bear arms against" local law
enforcement officers who<BR>> were trying to serve him with a warrant.
Authorities recover a letter that<BR>> Fornof had tried to serve the deputies
with, which reads, "I have the right<BR>> to bear arms against such unlawful
entities, up to and including the<BR>> President of the United States, that
are coming against me unlawfully,<BR>> lethally, and
genocidally."<BR>><BR>> August 23, 2010—Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after
he attempts to bring a<BR>> fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook
County courthouse. Pidegon was<BR>> supposed to attend a foreclosure hearing
that day. His home was to be sold<BR>> to a lender in North Carolina after
New York-based BNY Mellon filed an<BR>> action against him in the
county.<BR>><BR>> September 1, 2010—James Jay Lee, 43, takes hostages at
the Discovery<BR>> Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, while
armed with two<BR>> starter pistols and four improvised explosived devices.
After pointing a gun<BR>> at one of the hostages, he is shot and killed by
police. Lee, a radical<BR>> environmental activist, had previously issued 11
demands through a webpage<BR>> that Discovery was to meet "immediately." The
demands involved the content<BR>> of programming on the Discovery Channel.
Lee had also declared on his<BR>> MySpace page, "It's time for
REVOLUTION!!!"<BR>><BR>> September 13, 2010—Police stop Richard Scott
McLeod, 48, for a traffic<BR>> violation in Webberville, Michigan, and upon
searching his vehicle, discover<BR>> bumper stickers quoting Adolf Hitler, a
picture of President Barack Obama, a<BR>> loaded handgun, a bullet-proof
vest, and bomb-making materials. McLeod is<BR>> arrested and charged with
illegally carrying a concealed weapon and unlawful<BR>> possession of body
armor. McLeod tells officers that he is a member of the<BR>> Michigan
Militia. The group denies any relationship with McLeod<BR>><BR>> September
16, 2010—Patricia Stoneking, the President of the Kansas State<BR>> Rifle
Association, tells Fox News, "People need to arm themselves, We have<BR>> the
right to put limits on our government, and that's what [the Second<BR>>
Amendment] does." Explaining why America's Founding Fathers drafted the<BR>>
amendment, she says, "They knew government could become tyrannical. We
have<BR>> the right to defend ourselves from a rogue
government."<BR>><BR>> September 30, 2010—Kevin Terrell, a self-described
"colonel" who founded a<BR>> group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky,
predicts war with "the jackbooted<BR>> thugs" of Washington within a year.
Referring to the arrest of Hutaree<BR>> militia members earlier in the year,
Terrell says, "There was a lot of<BR>> citizens out there in the bushes,
locked and loaded. It's only due to<BR>> miracles I do not understand that
civil war did not break out right there."<BR>><BR>> September 30,
2010—Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff running for sheriff in<BR>> Lake County,
Montana, threatens "a violent conflict" with federal agents if<BR>> "they are
doing something I believe is unconstitutional."<BR>><BR>> October 15,
2010—Conservative radio show host Glenn Beck lays out a<BR>> hypothetical
scenario on the air where the government is considering taking<BR>> his
children because he refused to have them receive a mandatory flu<BR>>
vaccine. Beck tells his audience that his response to the government
would<BR>> be "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson."<BR>><BR>> October 21,
2010—Pastor Stephen Broden, the Republican candidate for U.S.<BR>>
Representative in Texas' 30th Congressional District, tells WFAA-TV in<BR>>
Dallas that the violent overthrow of the government is an "option" that<BR>>
remains "on the table." "Our nation was founded on violence," states<BR>>
Broden. "I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the table
as<BR>> it relates to our liberties and our freedoms."<BR>><BR>>
October 22, 2010—Texas Department of Corrections officers searching for
a<BR>> missing person, Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor while
on<BR>> Clements' property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger, 46,
points an<BR>> AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the officers, who
recalls, "He<BR>> told us to get off the property or he would kill us all."
Later that<BR>> afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search
warrant and an<BR>> armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger
opens fire on the<BR>> vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before
authorities shoot and kill<BR>> him. Police find guns and "many rounds of
ammunition" in Granger's house.<BR>> They also find the body of Clements,
buried in a shallow grave on Granger's<BR>> property.<BR>><BR>>
November 2, 2010—On Election Night, supporters of Republican
congressional<BR>> candidate Nick Popaditch shout down and physically
confront Rep. Bob Filner<BR>> (D-CA) and his staff as they exit Golden Hall
in San Diego following the<BR>> announcment of Filner's victory in the race.
"You're a damn liar. You should<BR>> be ashamed of yourself," Popaditch tells
Filner, leading the mob. Other<BR>> Popaditch supporters yell "You're a
scumbag!" "Jew!" and "Don't tread on me,<BR>> Bob!" Another Popaditch
supporter punches a Filner campaign staffer in the<BR>> face.<BR>><BR>>
November 3, 2010—James Patock, 66, of Pima County, Arizona, is arrested
on<BR>> the National Mall in the District of Columbia after law
enforcement<BR>> authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243 caliber rifle
barrel, a .22<BR>> caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol, several boxes of
ammunition, and<BR>> propane tanks wired to four car batteries in his truck
and trailer. Patock<BR>> former neighbor in Arizona reported that, "He hated
the president. He hated<BR>> everything. He said if he got a chance he would
shoot the president." Patock<BR>> tells authorities he is a member of the
National Rifle Association.<BR>><BR>> November 4, 2010—On his radio show,
conservative host Glenn Beck fantasizes<BR>> about President Obama being
decapitated during a trip to India, saying, "If<BR>> anybody thinks he was a
Muslim over here, well God forbid, they think he was<BR>> a Muslim over there
because he left his religion for Christianity, death<BR>> sentence, behead
him.” Beck then tells his listeners that "God forbid" this<BR>> should
happen, as there would be a "New World Order" overnight in the United<BR>>
States.<BR>><BR>> November 4, 2010—Fox News host Bill O'Reilly fantasizes
about killing a<BR>> Washington Post reporter while on the air, saying, "Does
sharia law say we<BR>> can behead Dana Milbank?" O'Reilly also tells co-host
Megyn Kelly, "I think<BR>> you and I should go and beat him
up."<BR>><BR>> November 9, 2010—U.S. Representative-Elect Allen West of
Florida's 22nd<BR>> Congressional District hires conservative radio talk show
host Joyce Kaufman<BR>> as his Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told a
crowd of Tea Party<BR>> supporters, “I am convinced that the most important
thing the Founding<BR>> Fathers did to ensure me my First Amendments rights
was they gave me a<BR>> Second Amendment. And if ballots don’t work, bullets
will."<BR>><BR>> November 9, 2010—Concealed handgun permit holder George
Thomas Lee, 69, of<BR>> Walhalla, South Carolina, is arrested on the town's
main street for<BR>> disseminating and promoting obscenity by bearing signs
"laden with<BR>> expletives and taking aim at U.S. foreign policy, President
Barack Obama,<BR>> blacks in general, Jews and the nation of Israel."
Officers also seize<BR>> literature from Lee that details "the most expedient
means of killing law<BR>> enforcement officers." The November 9 arrest
follows an October 19 arrest<BR>> for assault after Lee kicked and swung his
signs at a group of girls between<BR>> the ages of 12 and 14.<BR>><BR>>
November 10, 2010—Public schools in Broward County, Florida, go into<BR>>
lockdown after an email threat is received by WFTL 850 AM. The email is
sent<BR>> to conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman in response to remarks she
made at<BR>> a Tea Party event in July ("If ballots don't work, bullets
will"). The email<BR>> expresses support for her view of the Second Amendment
and says that to<BR>> further "their cause...something big will happen at a
government building in<BR>> Broward County, maybe a post office maybe even a
school." A phone call is<BR>> then received at the station, allegedly from
the emailer's wife, warning<BR>> that he is preparing to go to a Pembroke
Pines school and open fire.<BR>><BR>> November 23, 2010—Larry Pratt, the
Executive Director of Gun Owners of<BR>> America, writes an editorial in The
Register Citizen in which he calls for<BR>> state and county sheriffs to
organize large, armed "posses" as "a check on<BR>> the unconstitutional
exercise of federal power."<BR>><BR>> November 29, 2010—U.S. Rep. Joe
Barton (R-TX), the ranking Republican on the<BR>> House Energy and Commerce
Committee, circulates a PowerPoint presentation to<BR>> his colleagues in
which he compares the Obama administration to the Nazi<BR>> regime in Germany
and likens himself to Gen. George Patton, bragging, "Put<BR>> anything in my
scope and I will shoot it."<BR>><BR>> December 3, 2010—At "Roe &
Roeper's Miracle on Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday<BR>> Extravaganza" promoting
"Toys 4 Tots" in Chicago, Illinois, actor R. Lee<BR>> Emery (famous for his
depiction of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal<BR>> Jacket") tells
those in attendance, "The economy really sucks. Now I hate to<BR>> point
fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot<BR>> to
do with that. And the way I see it, they're not gonna quit doing it
until<BR>> they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all
rise up and<BR>> we should stop this administration from what they're doing
because they're<BR>> destroying this country. They're driving us into
bankruptcy so that they can<BR>> impose socialism on us."<BR>><BR>>
December 31, 2010—An anonymous threat is posted in the "Rants and Raves"<BR>>
section of the Anchorage Craigslist against Andree McLeod, a citizen<BR>>
activist who has requested—under Alaska’s Open Records Act—work-related<BR>>
emails that Sarah Palin sent and received while governor of the state.
The<BR>> threat states, "I think Andre has used up to much oxygen. So I have
my scope<BR>> cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may
have been her<BR>> last." The Anchorage Police trace the message to the AOL
account of an<BR>> Anchorage woman in her 50s, but neglect to verify if she
is the one who is<BR>> responsible for it.<BR>><BR>> January 6,
2011—John Troy Davis, 44, is arrested after threatening to set<BR>> fire to
the office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and shoot members of his<BR>> staff.
The threat comes when Davis calls Bennet's office to complain about<BR>> his
Social Security benefits, telling a staffer that he is schizophrenic and<BR>>
"may go to terrorism." "I'm just going to come down there and shoot you<BR>>
all," he declares. Davis is charged with assault on a federal
employee.<BR>><BR>> January 8, 2011—Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords<BR>> (D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your
Corner" event at a Safeway<BR>> supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six,
including federal judge John<BR>> Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords,
who is shot in the head. Loughner<BR>> has an extensive history of mental
illness and substance abuse, yet is able<BR>> to purchase two handguns and a
high-capacity ammunition magazine legally at<BR>> Sportsman's Warehouse on
November 30, 2010. In a YouTube video posted in<BR>> December 2010, Loughner
states, "You don’t have to accept the federalist<BR>> laws ... Nonetheless,
read the United States of America’s Constitution to<BR>> apprehend all of the
current treasonous laws."<BR>><BR>> January 8, 2011—Fearing violence from
tea party activists, Arizona<BR>> Legislative District 20 Republican Chairman
Anthony Miller, Secretary Sophia<BR>> Johnson, First Vice Chairman Roger
Dickinson, and former district spokesman<BR>> Jeff Kolb resign from their
positions. "I don't want to take a bullet for<BR>> anyone," says Miller, who
cites verbal attacks and threatening blog posts<BR>> from tea party members
upset with the fact that he is a former campaign<BR>> worker for U.S. Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ). Miller also reports an incident in<BR>> which a detractor
made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at<BR>>
him.<BR>><BR>><BR>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM, lfalen
<</FONT><A href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>lfalen@turbonet.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>>
wrote:<BR>>><BR>>> Your arguments would have more veracity if you
named people on both the<BR>>> right and the left, but you continue to
harp on only Palin and the Tea<BR>>> Party. Talk about hate speech, no one
has been on the receiving end of it<BR>>> more than Palin. She has been
hanged in effigy. Do you condone that? I<BR>>> suspect that if she were to
be assassinated there would be very little<BR>>> condemnation of it from
the left. Most likely the comments would be "good<BR>>> riddance" or "she
had it coming".<BR>>> Roger<BR>>> -----Original
message-----<BR>>> From: Joe Campbell </FONT><A
href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>philosopher.joe@gmail.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:12:59 -0800<BR>>> To: Dan Carscallen </FONT><A
href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>areaman@moscow.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental
health<BR>>><BR>>> > Dan writes, in regard to the AZ shooting:
"This can’t be blamed on<BR>>> > rhetoric,<BR>>> > nor on
extremists from either side of the aisle. The blame lays solely<BR>>> >
on a<BR>>> > sick man who obviously needs help. And, perhaps, the
“blame” lays on<BR>>> > the<BR>>> > freedom we enjoy by being
citizens of the United States of America."<BR>>> ><BR>>> >
First, no one on the V at least "blamed" the shooting on rhetoric,
or<BR>>> > Palin,<BR>>> > or anyone, or anything. No one that
I know who has talked about the<BR>>> > connection between violent
rhetoric (or gun control, etc.) and the AZ<BR>>> > shooting has used
"blame" talk. So let's get that straight.<BR>>> ><BR>>> >
Rather than talk about "blame" for or even "causes" of the shooting,<BR>>>
> let's<BR>>> > talk about "explanations" for the shooting. Why did
it happen? What can<BR>>> > we<BR>>> > do to prevent shootings
like this from happening in the future? Your<BR>>> >
opinion<BR>>> > seems to be that we can't do anything, that shootings
like this just<BR>>> > happen<BR>>> > for NO reason whatsoever
-- or they happen in societies that have the<BR>>> > kinds<BR>>>
> of "freedoms" that our society has. That we should accept them
because<BR>>> > we<BR>>> > can't do anything about it, unless
we want to deprive people of their<BR>>> > "freedoms."<BR>>>
><BR>>> > Sorry but that seems a little too fatalistic and cynical
for my tastes.<BR>>> > I<BR>>> > think we CAN do something
about these kind of shootings. What can we do?<BR>>> > I<BR>>>
> don't know. I'd prefer to talk about it, though, see if there are
some<BR>>> > possible solutions. I'm not claiming to have the solution,
I'm just<BR>>> > claiming<BR>>> > that we can do something if
we put our minds to it and come up with a<BR>>> > plan.<BR>>>
><BR>>> > The claim that violent rhetoric and gun laws and even
Palin's poster<BR>>> > have<BR>>> > NOTHING to do with the
shooting, that the explanation for the shooting<BR>>> > is<BR>>>
> unrelated to the overinflated, violent rhetoric of the right and
others,<BR>>> > is<BR>>> > an extreme claim. Issues of
explanation are empirical issues. You have<BR>>> > to<BR>>> >
back up such an extreme claim -- a claim like the claim that violent<BR>>>
> rhetoric has NOTHING to do with violence in America. Here are a
few<BR>>> > reasons<BR>>> > why I think you can't back that
claim up.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > You'll have to explain why there is
more violence in American than in<BR>>> > almost<BR>>> > any
other country; why the violent rhetoric apparently works when it<BR>>>
> comes<BR>>> > to getting people to vote (Tea Party candidates had
some level of<BR>>> > success in<BR>>> > the last election;
anti-gay propaganda was a huge part of Republican<BR>>> > victories
during the last Bush era) yet has NO other impact on human<BR>>> >
behavior; why a lot of the violence from "lunatics" is directed
toward<BR>>> > folks<BR>>> > on the left (as well as gays,
Muslims, etc.). Now if you have the<BR>>> > explanation, please give it
-- please explain why you're so certain that<BR>>> > there is NO
connection between violent rhetoric and actual violence. I'm<BR>>> >
pretty sure you have no formal training in psychology or sociology,
so<BR>>> > I'm<BR>>> > unsure what your basis is. I don't
think the explanation has anything to<BR>>> > with our "freedoms." I
don't think the vision of a society that is both<BR>>> >
free<BR>>> > and nonviolent is an absurdity.<BR>>>
><BR>>> > I think it is clear that there is SOME connection between
violent<BR>>> > rhetoric<BR>>> > and actual violence. The real
questions are how much of a connection is<BR>>> > there (what is the
nature of the connection) and what can we do about<BR>>> > it?
I<BR>>> > refuse to think that "Nothing" is a good answer.<BR>>>
><BR>>> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Dan Carscallen
<</FONT><A href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>areaman@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>><BR>>>
> wrote:<BR>>> ><BR>>> > > Vizzz peeps,<BR>>> >
><BR>>> > ><BR>>> > ><BR>>> > > We live
in a free society. One of the prices we pay for living here<BR>>> >
> is<BR>>> > > that there are some loonballs running around who
could snap at any<BR>>> > > minute> Should they be? Probably not,
but who is to say when and how these<BR>>> > > folks<BR>>>
> > should be rounded up and treated? Sure, I think all of us can
talk<BR>>> > > about<BR>>> > > the guy in our
neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what are<BR>>> > >
we<BR>>> > > supposed to do? Call the cops and have them haul him in
because he<BR>>> > > doesn’t<BR>>> > > fit society’s
norm? I think there are a lot of folks, right here on<BR>>> > >
the<BR>>> > > Vizzz even, that don’t necessarily follow the “norm”.
But we go<BR>>> > > along and<BR>>> > > live our lives
in our free society.<BR>>> > ><BR>>> > ><BR>>>
> ><BR>>> > > The media talked to this Jared guy’s neighbors,
and they said “yes, he<BR>>> > > seemed like a nutjob”, but what
were they to do? They watched him,<BR>>> > > kept<BR>>> >
> their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could. Unfortunately,
he<BR>>> > > “slipped through the cracks”. Should he have been
prevented from<BR>>> > > buying a<BR>>> > > pistol?
Maybe, but in a free society, how? He wasn’t a convicted<BR>>> > >
felon, he<BR>>> > > answered all the questions properly, and he paid
his money. It’s not<BR>>> > > a<BR>>> > > speedy
process, no matter who or where you are. Even with a concealed<BR>>> >
> weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it’s not quick by
any<BR>>> > > means.<BR>>> > ><BR>>> >
><BR>>> > ><BR>>> > > This can’t be blamed on
rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side<BR>>> > > of
the<BR>>> > > aisle. The blame lays solely on a sick man who
obviously needs help.<BR>>> > > And,<BR>>> > > perhaps,
the “blame” lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens of<BR>>> >
> the<BR>>> > > United States of America.<BR>>> >
><BR>>> > ><BR>>> > ><BR>>> > > Your
pal<BR>>> > ><BR>>> > ><BR>>> >
><BR>>> > > DC<BR>>> > ><BR>>> > >
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